tank NIESR), the author Paul Ormerod, the monetary economist Professor Tim Congdon, and the financial journalist and author John Authers. All four occasions were very successful and attendance was mostly excellent. The debate at the end of the Term, the first event of its kind, was also very well attended and great fun. A mixture of Trinity academics and students debated the topic, ‘This House believes Economics is not a Science’, after which the audience vote swung against the motion.
Trinity College Geography Society By Sofia Christensen (2011) This year’s newly founded TCGS is a small but dynamic way of uniting Trinity’s growing community of geographers. From only one student in 2011, numbers have now risen to seven and five offers have been made for the coming year. TCGS is chaired by Trinity students, but also works in cooperation with Churchill’s first- and second-year geography students. Two speaker events were organized during the Easter Term, one with a historical geographer from Royal Holloway discussing eighteenth-century travel literature, and the other presenting a sustainable fishing project in the Amazon funded by WWF. The aim for next year is to organise between two and three similar events per term, as a way of bringing new perspectives to geography that are not related to the prospectus, and creating a space for informal discussion between geographers. In terms of social events, TCGS also organised a successful end-of-term dinner for its members in order to celebrate the end of exams and bid farewell to finalists. There will also be a Christmas dinner at the end of Michaelmas Term as an occasion to socialise and welcome new members.
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Looking forward we aim to further the growth of the Society by putting together if possible an even more impressive list of speakers for next Michaelmas. Given the roaring success of the first one, we also aim to host more student debates as these give students direct opportunities to discuss and develop their own views on economic issues. A further opportunity for expansion will be to host joint events with the University’s Marshall Society, for example, and with other societies in Trinity. All in all, things look very promising for Trinity College Economics Society.